From Alphonse de Candolle January 1877
Summary
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759 |
To Williams & Norgate [7 July? 1877]
Summary
Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | [7 July? 1877] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10759F |
From Alpheus Hyatt January 1877
Summary
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
Author: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 357, 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10760 |
From Thomas Belt [before 18] January 1877
Summary
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18] Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10761 |
From Francis Darwin [14 June? 1877]
Summary
Forwards letters.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 June? 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10762F |
From E. A. Darwin [1 January 1877]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10763 |
From Arthur Mellersh 1 January 1877
Summary
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764 |
To Octavian Blewitt 1 January 1877
Summary
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 1 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96 RLF 1/2015/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10764F |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
From T. A. B. Spratt 2 January 1877
Summary
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Author: | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10767 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 January [1877]
Summary
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 3 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10769 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
From Francis Darwin to the Auckland Star 4 January 1877
Summary
His father is grateful for the account of the alleged discovery of men with tails.
His father does not believe in their existence of the tailed men, although the tails may be an inherited monstrosity.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Auckland Star |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Auckland Star, 1 March 1877, p. 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770F |
From R. F. Cooke 5 January 1877
Summary
Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.
1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 484 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10771 |
From Julius Sachs 6 January 1877
Summary
Sends photographs of himself.
Thanks CD for book [Cross and self-fertilisation]
and Francis Darwin for publications.
Author: | Julius Sachs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10772 |
From George Hodgskin 6 January 1877
Summary
Sends nest of a Uruguayan bird.
Author: | George Hodgskin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10773 |
To Francis Galton [6–12 January 1877]
Summary
Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | [6–12 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10774 |
From Otto Zacharias 7 January 1877
Summary
Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.
Haeckel is ill.
German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10775 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
Darwin, Francis | (19) |
Romanes, G. J. | (19) |